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The official account for the CFTCA, the Pacific Northwest film and television critics association.
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CFTCA Digest: VIFF 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for October 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. This month’s digest centers on coverage of the 44th edition of the Van...
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Our October critics round up, which focuses on VIFF coverage is now up! Check out our members reviews of Sentimental Value, Blue Moon, The Mastermind and more!
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Our October critics round up, which focuses on VIFF coverage is now up! Check out our members reviews of Sentimental Value, Blue Moon, The Mastermind and more!
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CFTCA Digest: VIFF 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for October 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. This month’s digest centers on coverage of the 44th edition of the Van...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Our October critics round up, which focuses on VIFF coverage is now up! Check out our members reviews of Sentimental Value, Blue Moon, The Mastermind and more!
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Our August critics round up is now love! Check out reviews on Weapons, Honey Don't, Nobody 2, Alien: Earth and more! Check out all of our members work!
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CFTCA Digest: August 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for August 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. Film Reviews An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola | By Dom Sinacola | R...
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September 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Our August critics round up is now love! Check out reviews on Weapons, Honey Don't, Nobody 2, Alien: Earth and more! Check out all of our members work!
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Meet Michael Clawson, one of our board members, host of the Drink in the Movies podcast and film reviewer. Learn all about Michael!
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CFTCA Member Profile: Michael Clawson - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Where is your favourite place to sit in a theater? About two-thirds away from the screen, slightly to one side or the other. Tell us about your local film scene (what you like about it, things you wis...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Meet Michael Clawson, one of our board members, host of the Drink in the Movies podcast and film reviewer. Learn all about Michael!
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On this month's Cascadia round up, I ranked the Mission Impossible films (with @smatthew.bsky.social and Rachel Ho) and reviewed Mann’s Sparks. Check out all the great members work!
Our June critics round up is here! We have reviews of 28 Years Later, Bring Them Down, Materialists, Into the Inferno and much more! Check out all of our members works.
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CFTCA Digest: June 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for June 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. Film Reviews Contra Zoom Pod Ep. #307: Mission Impossible Ranked | Listen...
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July 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
On this month's Cascadia round up, I ranked the Mission Impossible films (with @smatthew.bsky.social and Rachel Ho) and reviewed Mann’s Sparks. Check out all the great members work!
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Featuring my review of Jia Zhangke's CAUGHT BY THE TIDES and a post from the WERNER HERZBLOG alongside the great critical work of a bunch of Pacific Northwest critics.
Our June critics round up is here! We have reviews of 28 Years Later, Bring Them Down, Materialists, Into the Inferno and much more! Check out all of our members works.
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CFTCA Digest: June 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for June 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. Film Reviews Contra Zoom Pod Ep. #307: Mission Impossible Ranked | Listen...
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July 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Featuring my review of Jia Zhangke's CAUGHT BY THE TIDES and a post from the WERNER HERZBLOG alongside the great critical work of a bunch of Pacific Northwest critics.
Our June critics round up is here! We have reviews of 28 Years Later, Bring Them Down, Materialists, Into the Inferno and much more! Check out all of our members works.
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CFTCA Digest: June 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for June 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. Film Reviews Contra Zoom Pod Ep. #307: Mission Impossible Ranked | Listen...
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July 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Our June critics round up is here! We have reviews of 28 Years Later, Bring Them Down, Materialists, Into the Inferno and much more! Check out all of our members works.
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Our May Roundup is here! Last month was @siffnews.bsky.social so we are featuring reviews of Twinless, Sorry, Baby, Four Mothers, Shepherds and more!
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CFTCA Digest: SIFF 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for May 2025, a roundup of recent work. This month’s digest centers on coverage of the Seattle International Film Festival.
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June 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Our May Roundup is here! Last month was @siffnews.bsky.social so we are featuring reviews of Twinless, Sorry, Baby, Four Mothers, Shepherds and more!
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Oh hey it’s me.
Meet Matthew Simpson, he’s one of our three co-founders and the host of the Awesome Friday podcast. Learn all about @smatthew.bsky.social!
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CFTCA Member Profile: Matthew Simpson - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
On our latest member profile, we meet Matthew Simpson, one of the co-founders of the CFTCA and host of the Awesome Friday podcast.
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May 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Oh hey it’s me.
Meet Matthew Simpson, he’s one of our three co-founders and the host of the Awesome Friday podcast. Learn all about @smatthew.bsky.social!
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CFTCA Member Profile: Matthew Simpson - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
On our latest member profile, we meet Matthew Simpson, one of the co-founders of the CFTCA and host of the Awesome Friday podcast.
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May 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Meet Matthew Simpson, he’s one of our three co-founders and the host of the Awesome Friday podcast. Learn all about @smatthew.bsky.social!
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Our April round up of our members work is now up! Check out reviews of Warfare, Sinners, Havoc, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Sacramento and more!
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CFTCA Digest: April 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for April 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics.
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May 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Our April round up of our members work is now up! Check out reviews of Warfare, Sinners, Havoc, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Sacramento and more!
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Check out my review of the Blue Rodeo doc and all the other great work by my fellow members!
Check out my review of the Blue Rodeo doc and all the other great work by my fellow members!
Our February critics round up is now live! Check out our members reviews of The Monkey, The Brutalist, My Dead Friend Zoe, Blue Rodeo: Lost Together, Win or Lose and more!
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March 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Check out my review of the Blue Rodeo doc and all the other great work by my fellow members!
Our February critics round up is now live! Check out our members reviews of The Monkey, The Brutalist, My Dead Friend Zoe, Blue Rodeo: Lost Together, Win or Lose and more!
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CFTCA Digest: February 2025 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for February 2025, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. Film Reviews Haru (Yoshimitsu Morita, 1996) | Read the Full Review"In...
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March 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Our February critics round up is now live! Check out our members reviews of The Monkey, The Brutalist, My Dead Friend Zoe, Blue Rodeo: Lost Together, Win or Lose and more!
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Meet Thomas Stoneham-Judge, he’s one of our groups founders. He also runs the publication For Reel. Learn all about Thomas on our latest Member Profile.
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CFTCA Member Profile: Thomas Stoneham-Judge - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Tell us about yourself. I've had my website ForReel since 2018. I am now a Rotten Tomatoes certified critic and mostly review newly released films and film festival selections. My reviews for films co...
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March 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Meet Thomas Stoneham-Judge, he’s one of our groups founders. He also runs the publication For Reel. Learn all about Thomas on our latest Member Profile.
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Meet Dakota Arsenault one of our groups founders. He helped created the CFTCA back in 2021. Learn about how he got started in the industry, what movie he’s seen the most times, what his biggest career moment is and more!
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CFTCA Member Profile: Dakota Arsenault - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Tell us about yourself. I mainly am a podcaster, creating and hosting Contra Zoom Pod, a weekly show where every week we switch things up since 2015. Whether it is an episode in our A24 Retrospective ...
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January 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Meet Dakota Arsenault one of our groups founders. He helped created the CFTCA back in 2021. Learn about how he got started in the industry, what movie he’s seen the most times, what his biggest career moment is and more!
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Our December critics round up is live! Check out our members reviews on such films like Nosferatu, No Other Land, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist and more!
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CFTCA Digest: December 2024 - Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for December 2024, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. Film Reviews A24 - Retrospective: The Witch | Listen to the EpisodeOn...
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January 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Our December critics round up is live! Check out our members reviews on such films like Nosferatu, No Other Land, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist and more!
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The members of the Cascadia Film & Television Critics Aasociation are proud to announce our Beat Cascadian Film of 2024, Sometimes I Think About Dying by director Rachel Lambert. Read all about it here:
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December 27, 2024 at 11:36 PM
The members of the Cascadia Film & Television Critics Aasociation are proud to announce our Beat Cascadian Film of 2024, Sometimes I Think About Dying by director Rachel Lambert. Read all about it here:
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We are proud to announce that the winner of the 2024 Best Cascadian Film Sometimes I Think About Dying, directed by Rachel Lambert. The film was shot in Oregon and tells the story of a depressed woman who slowly starts to come out of her shell.
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The 2024 CFTCA Best Cascadian Film Award Winner: Sometimes I Think About Dying - Cascadia Film & TV Critics Association
After a fierce battle to see who would win our second annual Best Cascadian Film, Sometimes I Think About Dying, directed by Rachel Lambert and written by Stefanie Abel Horowitz, Kevin Armento and Kat...
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December 27, 2024 at 6:40 PM
We are proud to announce that the winner of the 2024 Best Cascadian Film Sometimes I Think About Dying, directed by Rachel Lambert. The film was shot in Oregon and tells the story of a depressed woman who slowly starts to come out of her shell.
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Our November critics round up is here! Check out our reviews of Wicked, Dahomey, Compulsus, Blitz, Gladiator II and more!
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CFTCA Digest: November 2024 - Cascadia Film & TV Critics Association
Welcome to CFTCA's monthly digest for November 2024, a roundup of recent reviews, features, interviews, and more by CTFCA critics. Film Reviews Columbia Noirs on Contra Zoom Pod | Listen to the Episod...
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December 24, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Our November critics round up is here! Check out our reviews of Wicked, Dahomey, Compulsus, Blitz, Gladiator II and more!
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Cascadia Film & Television Critics have named our top five series of 2024! Check it out!
We have named our five best tv shows of 2024! Click link to see where shows like The Penguin, Fallout, Mr and Mrs Smith and more all rank!
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Cascadia Critics Five Best Television Series of 2024 -
The Best Five Series of 2024 as voted on by the Cascadia Fil & Television Critics Association
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December 21, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Cascadia Film & Television Critics have named our top five series of 2024! Check it out!
We have named our five best tv shows of 2024! Click link to see where shows like The Penguin, Fallout, Mr and Mrs Smith and more all rank!
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Cascadia Critics Five Best Television Series of 2024 -
The Best Five Series of 2024 as voted on by the Cascadia Fil & Television Critics Association
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December 20, 2024 at 7:11 PM
We have named our five best tv shows of 2024! Click link to see where shows like The Penguin, Fallout, Mr and Mrs Smith and more all rank!
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Year two at @cascadiacritics.bsky.social in the bag! A great top 10 list featuring some of my favourites of the year like Dune: Part Two, Challengers and Civil War!
We have named our ten best films of the year! Click link to see where films like Challengers, I Saw The TV Glow, The Substance and more all rank!
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Cascadia Critics Ten Best Films of 2024
It's that time of year again! For the second year in a row, we are naming the ten best films as voted on by members in our critics group. This year we expanded into Oregon on top of now having a total...
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December 16, 2024 at 12:29 AM
Year two at @cascadiacritics.bsky.social in the bag! A great top 10 list featuring some of my favourites of the year like Dune: Part Two, Challengers and Civil War!
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👋 The Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association that I am a part of has named our top ten movies of 2024! Each film has an advocate of someone in our group who ranked the film highly on their list. Check it out here:
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December 15, 2024 at 9:24 PM
👋 The Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association that I am a part of has named our top ten movies of 2024! Each film has an advocate of someone in our group who ranked the film highly on their list. Check it out here:
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Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association, the local group I helped found, has named our top ten movies of 2024! Check it out here:
We have named our ten best films of the year! Click link to see where films like Challengers, I Saw The TV Glow, The Substance and more all rank!
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Cascadia Critics Ten Best Films of 2024
It's that time of year again! For the second year in a row, we are naming the ten best films as voted on by members in our critics group. This year we expanded into Oregon on top of now having a total...
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December 15, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Cascadia Film & Television Critics Association, the local group I helped found, has named our top ten movies of 2024! Check it out here:
We have named our ten best films of the year! Click link to see where films like Challengers, I Saw The TV Glow, The Substance and more all rank!
www.cascadiacritics.com/2024/12/casc...
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Cascadia Critics Ten Best Films of 2024
It's that time of year again! For the second year in a row, we are naming the ten best films as voted on by members in our critics group. This year we expanded into Oregon on top of now having a total...
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December 15, 2024 at 7:23 PM
We have named our ten best films of the year! Click link to see where films like Challengers, I Saw The TV Glow, The Substance and more all rank!
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Here are the five finalists for Best Cascadian film that I helped to nominate! Check them a out!
Here are the nominees for the 2024 Best Cascadian Film, an award that celebrates the best film from British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. Click link to learn more about the nominees and stay tuned for the winners announcement later this month! #Filmsky
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Nominees for the 2024 CFTCA Best Cascadian Film Award - Cascadia Film & TV Critics Association
As the Cascadian Film and Television Critics Association, we believe that it is our moral duty to highlight local films and celebrate them. Our members represent the Cascadian region, which ignores co...
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December 6, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Here are the five finalists for Best Cascadian film that I helped to nominate! Check them a out!